Free Radiohead Album (merged)

Crouching_Hippo

Very good... Just registered and should get the code soon. Not too sure how some people have said that they have downloaded it already? Thought it was only available from the 10th October.

Ferris

tamora wrote: »

Works a treat, with no transaction charge

how did you manage to pull that off?

sassi

Ferris wrote: »

how did you manage to pull that off?

if you put 0.00 no card details are required, so no charge made....

Crouching_Hippo

I think that you can register and get your order details successfully and when you get the activation code and you try to download, you will be charged at that point.

It doesn't matter how much you are willing to pay as everyone will have to pay the admin charge of £0.45. So even if you put in 0.00 you will still pay £0.45 at the point of download is my guess.

Chrisp7

Crouching_Hippo wrote: »

I think that you can register and get your order details successfully and when you get the activation code and you try to download, you will be charged at that point.

It doesn't matter how much you are willing to pay as everyone will have to pay the admin charge of £0.45. So even if you put in 0.00 you will still pay £0.45 at the point of download is my guess.

Not true, why is everyone saying this???? If you select £0.00 there is no credit card charge as you dont need to use your card. End of Story.

Martin please change your explanation at the top of the thread.

direwolf

Andy_ArT_Trigg wrote: »

The amount I would be prepared to pay is dependent on how good it is. It's a pity you can't hear it first.

Well, you can.

Get the download for £0 if you wish, listen to it, then download it again and pay what you feel is a fair price.

I believe it's one download per email address but getting another web based one isn't difficult.

small_spender

I know we all want to save money on this site, but I think everyone who opted to pay nothing for the download should be feeling 'a bit bad' (see MoneySaving Stalwart's post earlier). Offering the download for what people want to pay is a brave experiment that should be supported. If people opt to pay nothing or a pittance it will fail and nobody will ever try anything like this again. If Radiohead make a decent return, then more offers like this may come our way. I'm sure they're not expecting people to pay full price for a download with no hardware costs - certainly nothing in the itunes rip-off league - especially as the band will reap benefits in terms of increased exposure, but I'm sure they're hoping that people's sense of fair play will kick in. I paid in £s what I would expect to pay in $ were I to get it from one of those cheap Russian download sites.

theresa.east15

:T THANKS for this info. I've just completed this transaction and it took me 3 or 4 goes before it took me to input my deatils, but just to let you know that you will need to input your card details.

Shame on you for putting in 0.00!! We'd by the CD anyway.

rabid

small_spender wrote: »

I know we all want to save money on this site, but I think everyone who opted to pay nothing for the download should be feeling 'a bit bad' (see MoneySaving Stalwart's post earlier). Offering the download for what people want to pay is a brave experiment that should be supported. If people opt to pay nothing or a pittance it will fail and nobody will ever try anything like this again.

Couldn't agree more.

I'm quite shocked by the responses in this thread. Radiohead are taking steps to improve the way that we can attain music legally and most people just see it as a chance to rip the artist off.

Way to support an excellent idea.

TonyIce

freddyg wrote: »

I'm quite surprised and a little ashamed of the number of people taking this for (effectively) nothing! How would you feel if this was your work being devalued?

But whose version of "value" are you referring to? Yours? Radiohead's? "The Industry"'s? It really isn't that simple, there are much deeper principles at work here. Perhaps this is a little off-topic, but let's go mad with it....

I think what a lot of people are doing in their reaction to this announcement is jumping the gun - don't forget the route of all this : Radiohead themselves made a record (no label involvement, no middleman) and said to the world "Take it, and give us whatever you want to give us in return". Put that way it seems like we should give something, if simply just to act in a civilised manner. However, I feel the joke's on us as we're all (yet again) stirred up into the intelectual-property debate, which seems to be going round in circles. But I guess we need to be having the debate, because the world of music and money is rarely fair, whatever that means. It's a shame the two are connected at all.

Radiohead have set the bar in this particular case. If they'd said from the start "download this album for £5, it's not much and we feel it's a fair price to you and us", then everyone rushed to torrent sites to get it for nothing then you'd be right to assume that they'd feel their work was being devalued. But the fact that they've done it the way they have makes me think they're not working on that level. In a way, giving the option of paying nothing makes a bold statement about the very idea of music having a "value" in the first place, be it financial or otherwise. Perhaps they don't even care and that's just the sort of pretentious rubbish that makes it all seem kind of futile.... It's a tricky one as we're dealing with something a little more abstract than a washing machine or some wood or something.... You get my point. If they'd just offered it for free we wouldn't be having this debate, how many people would insist on sending them money in that case? Let's see what happens with the Charlatans new album.... Of course, Radiohead and the Charlatans are in a very fortunate position to be able to act this way, but good on them I say.

Why is there no equal and opposite argument about the physical version costing £40? I'm not saying it's wrong that it does, I just think the same principles stand and a balanced view could be helpful.

I've run out of steam, got carried away and that took far too long to write, I expect I've missed a lot, but plenty to be going on with for now.